The IT technology provider found that nearly 50% of GCC’s executives were not confident in their organisations’ capability to respond to a cyber-attack.

Gulf Business Machines recently revealed at an event for Bahrain's business community, that roughly 50% of GCC's executives did not believe their organisations were fully prepared to counter a cyber-attack.

Held on the 5 June, 2016, and under the theme of ‘How Can We Predict Cyber-Attacks?', the event introduced industry experts from IBM and Cisco, who highlighted the value of best practices in securing data.

Abdulla Ishaq, country general manager, GBM Bahrain, commented: "While there is a certain level of awareness, not enough is being done to focus on predictive security, so it is a pleasure for GBM to facilitate the necessary knowledge sharing between industry-leading experts from our network, Cisco, IBM and our customers."

Additional findings revealed by the IT technology provider, highlighted that 71% of GCC executives confirmed that their respective IT security budgets will either stay or decreased in 2016.

He added: "The learnings from our survey and today's panel discussion with experts of IBM and Cisco, allows us to offer customers best practices on how to develop a holistic security model, and gain continuous protection and visibility along their entire security journey."